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• Directory:Clarksville, Indiana
  ...ttle are raised nearby. The community was founded in 1784 by George Rogers Clark, American frontier leader. Government is by mayor and council. Population: '''Clark-Floyd County Convention & Tourism Bureau:''' 315 Southern Indiana Ave., Jeffersonville,
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• Directory:Jonas Rand
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• Directory:Trans-quest USA
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• Directory:Iowa
  ...owa. Two years later the Louisiana Territory was created and the Lewis and Clark Expedition sent out to explore the new territory. In 1808, the U.S. Army bu ...1855, through several changes until the legalization of selling it with a county permit in 1963. Districts were changed to give equal representation in the
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• Directory:Long Neck, Delaware
  ...000|2000 census]]. Long Neck is the only census-designated place in Sussex County. It is part of the [[Directory:Seaford, Delaware|Seaford]] [[Seaford microp ...karawaok River (later named "Nanticoke" River), in the western part of the county. Heading up this European expedition was none other than Captain [[John Sm
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• Wikipedia Vandalism/Shira Scheindlin
  ...n's ruling and held that Clark was not denied her right to counsel because Clark "knowingly and intelligently exercised her constitutional right to make tho ...or unselfish service to the profession and the community from the New York County Lawyers Association (2007)
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...of the Columbia River in 1792, the area was further explored by Lewis and Clark in 1805 and was soon the site of fur-trading posts. The Oregon Country, a r ...ny were approaching the Columbia River country when the overland Lewis and Clark expedition arrived in 1805. David Thompson was already making his way to th
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• Directory:Wyoming
  ...wasn't until 1807 that John Colter, who had been a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, first explored the area that would become Yellowstone National ...ellowstone Park) to the Wyoming-Utah boundary, was annexed and named Uinta County. As the territory and later the state became settled, the following countie
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...the 43rd state in [[Year Admitted:=1890|1890]]. Explored by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, the region was held jointly by Great Britain and the Un ...nnatives to enter the area that is now Idaho were members of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805. They were not far ahead of the fur traders who came to
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• Directory:Nevada
  ...eatures the only round courthouse in the United States. Update: {the Bucks County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, constructed in 1960, is considered round. Now t ...ed the privately owned area to film a complicated wild horse round up with Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach.
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...region until 1777, during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). George Rogers Clark of Virginia led American soldiers into Indiana to fight Britain and claim I ...iana when he was 7 years old. He lived most of his boyhood life in Spencer County with his parents Thomas and Nancy.
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• Directory:Montana
  ...tates through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and was explored by Lewis and Clark in 1805 and 1806. Split for many years among other western territories, the ...ye in the early 1740s. The American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their expedition across Montana to the Pacific Coast in 1805. They retu
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• Onion the dog
  On May 7, the [[Clark County]] court granted a temporary restraining order filed on behalf of the dog by On Friday, May 11, at 10:00 in the Clark County courthouse, a hearing was held on the attempts by The Lexus Project to obta
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...sh continued to control what is now Illinois until 1778 when George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero, and his band of American colonists captured Fort * Illinois has more units of government than any other state (i.e., city, county, township, etc.). Over six thousand. One contributing reason may be the tow
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...o the lead mines at Ste Geneviève and Potosi. By the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1803–6), St. Louis was already known as the gateway to the Fa ...'s industries expanded to help supply war materials. John Pershing of Linn County was named commander in chief of the U.S. forces in France. The Great Depres
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...ance to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Lewis and Clark expedition (1804) and the explorations of Zebulon M. Pike (1806) increased * Lincoln County is the origin of the world's largest "Wolly Mammoth" elephant fossil.
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...t by an army (consisting mostly of western Virginians) under George Rogers Clark, the British and Native American threat to the area was virtually removed. * A variety of the yellow apple, the Golden Delicious, originated in Clay County. The original Grimes Golden Apple Tree was discovered in 1775 near Wellsbur
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• Directory:Arkansas
  * Clark Bluff overlooking the St. Francis River contains chalk to supply the nation * Little River County Courthouse is world famous for it's Christmas lights display.
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• June 1
  *[[1831]] - [[James Clark Ross]] discovers the position of the [[North Pole|North Magnetic Pole]] on ...Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded either for a county cricket match or a single day's bowling, and not bettered in [[first-class
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...rrender (Oct. 19, 1781) in the Yorktown campaign. Meanwhile, George Rogers Clark and his Virginians had wrested (1779) the Northwest Territory from the Brit ...or the creation of the District of Columbia. In 1792, Kentucky, a Virginia county since 1776, was admitted to the Union as a separate state. After Madison an
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